Soccer pioneer and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Tom Cahill (pictured), who spent his early life in St. Louis and profoundly influenced the growth of the sport there, strikes a major blow against the U.S. Football Association (today’s U.S. Soccer Federation). Cahill convinces one of the nation’s two major professional leagues, the American Soccer League of the eastern United States, to follow the lead of the St. Louis League and pull out of the National Challenge Cup (today’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup).

Kutis ties St. Andres of Detroit, 2-2, to win its fourth straight U.S. Amateur Cup. The two-game series is decided on goal differential. Kutis won the opener, 5-0, July 25.

The year-old Major Indoor Soccer League awards a franchise to St. Louis. The team has a name (the Steamers), a logo designed by Bill McDermott, an owner (Marvin Mann of New Jersey), a general manager (Steve Weaver, former PR director of the NASL’s St. Louis Stars), and a home (the Checkerdome) — but no players and no coach.

Fire and Ice Soccer Club of Belleville, Ill., wins the Women’s Premier Soccer League title with a come-from-behind 2-1 win over the Gulf Coast Texans in Norco, Calif. Kelsey Dinges (pictured) scores both goals.

The opening ceremonies for the first summer Olympics since 1936 include five soccer players from St. Louis in the parade of all Olympic athletes at London’s Wembley Stadium: Bob Annis, Ray Beckman, Bill Bertani, Charley Colombo and Gino Pariani. St. Louisan Justin Keenoy is a referee for the Olympic soccer tournament.

J.B. Marine becomes the first and only St. Louis team to win the U-19 national soccer championship for girls by defeating Fairfax, Va., in the final in Omaha, Neb. The game is decided on penalty kicks after overtime ends in a 2-2 draw.

Mark Filla’s 51st-minute goal propels Scott Gallagher of St. Louis to a 1-0 win in the final of the McGuire U-19 Cup over Philadelphia’s F.C. Delco in Indianapolis.

St. Louisan and future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Ralph Tracey profoundly influences the destiny of the U.S. team in the semifinals of the first World Cup vs. Argentina. Tracey, a center halfback, suffers a severe knee injury and can’t continue in the second half. The 10-man U.S. team gives up five goals and loses, 6-1. The semifinal appearance in 1930 remains the farthest the United States has advanced in the men’s World Cup.

St. Louis native Jack Mackenzie, one of the winningest coaches in college soccer history, steps down as head coach at Quincy. His Quincy College/Quincy University teams compiled a combined record of 516-258-76 and nine NAIA championships over his 43 seasons as head coach.

The St. Louis Stars shower goals on the Minnesota Kicks on a rainy afternoon at Washington University’s Francis Field. The Stars boot the Kicks, 4-0, before 6,251 soggy fans.

Kutis, perhaps the best soccer team of its time in the United States, coasts to its sixth consecutive U.S. Amateur Cup championship by tying the Hartford (Conn.) Italian-American Stars, 3-3, in Hartford in the second game of a two-game series decided on total goals.

Using an all-St. Louis lineup, the St. Louis Stars defeat West German powerhouse Werder Bremen, 1-0, before 8,228 fans at Busch Stadium. The game’s only goal comes from Mike Seerey (pictured) off Jim Bokern’s corner kick in the 37th minute.

Fire and Ice SC of St. Louis, the defending Women’s Premier Soccer League champion, loses, 1-0, to the Seattle Sounders Women in the WPSL semifinals in Norman, Okla.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Charley Colombo is born. He will be one of five starters from St. Louis on the U.S. team that upsets England, 1-0, in the 1950 World Cup. Colombo also will play on two U.S. Open Cup championship teams in 1948 and 1950 with Simpkins Ford.

St. Louisan Steve Ralston scores as the United States blasts Cuba, 5-0, in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup in Foxboro, Mass.

Scott Gallagher loses, 2-1, in U.S. Amateur Cup final to Seattle Murphy’s Pub in Indianapolis. Craig Frederking (pictured), the all-time leading scorer in the history of men’s soccer at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, tallies Scott Gallagher’s only goal.

Citing the impact of the virus pandemic, Major League Soccer announces that it will delay the start of the St. Louis expansion team to 2023. The extra year means that the stadium, scheduled for completion in mid–2022, will be available for the start of the 2023 season.

It’s a big day for the St. Louis Stars’ Rudi Kolbl. Kolbl scores the game’s only goal as the Stars defeat the Pittsburgh Phantoms at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh before 5,414 fans in a nationally televised match. The goal lifts him into the scoring lead in the first-year National Professional Soccer League with 27 points on 10 goals and seven assists.

Future U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Frank “Pee Wee” Wallace is born. His most memorable moments in soccer will come at the 1950 World Cup, when he will be one of five starters from St. Louis in the United States’ 1-0 upset of England. He will score three goals in seven appearances during his career with the U.S. National Team.

The U.S. men defeat Martinique, 2-0, in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament, largely through the efforts of the St. Louis duo of Brian McBride and Steve Ralston. McBride, a Chicago-area native who set career scoring records at St. Louis University from 1990-93, scores both goals on assists from Ralston, a St. Louis native.